Daily Outputs of Precipitation from the Low Resolution (60km) Regional Climate Model Simulations (WRF-ERAInterim) over West Africa, 1980 - 2010 (WASCAL Project)

Low resolution (60km) regional climate simulations were carried out by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) as part of the West Africa Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Project. One of the goals of the WASCAL project is to provide the best accuracy in regional climate simulations over the entire West Africa region for a large proportion of the 21st century. The regional climate model employed in the project was the Weather Research and Forecasting Model version 3.5.1 (WRFv3.5.1) forced by three global circulation models (GCMs) under the Representative Concentrative Pathways 4.5 (RCP 4.5). The forcing GCMs are: the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM-MR, Stevens et al. 2013), the General Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Earth System Model (GFDL-ESM2M, Dunne et al. 2012), and the Hadley Global Environment Model (HadGEM2-ES, Collins et al. 2011). Further control runs with ERA- Interim reanalysis products (Dee et al. 2011) were also carried out for model verification and bias correction. Therefore, daily outputs of precipitation, obtained from the 3-hourly simulations of WRFv3.5.1, driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis, are hereby presented.

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Date (Creation)
2016-10-18T11:30:00
Presentation form
Digital model
Credit
Dr. Heinzeller, Dominikus
Credit
Dr. Olusegun, Christiana
Status
On going
Processor
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) - Dr. Olusegun, Christiana ( Post Doctoral )
https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=3583db98-0304-4fc9-8f6d-b9a2f9e2a2e2&fname=&access=private
Originator
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) - Dr. Heinzeller, Dominikus ( Senior Scientist )
Garmisch , Garmisch-Partenkirchen , 82467 , Germany
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
  • atmospheric precipitation
Theme
  • precipitation
  • WRF-ERAInterim
Region
  • Western Africa
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Publication in progress.

Currently, download is only allowed to registered members of WASCAL, including Graduate Studies Program, CoC staff members, and partners of affiliated research programs as far as authorized by the WASCAL headquarter. Account in the Data Portal is required for download.
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- The Data must not be re-distributed to unauthorized persons as defined by the Data Provider;

- The Data can be copied and processed to create derivations by the authorized persons;

- If publication results from using the Data the user agrees to cite the Data Provider and/or give credit to the Data Provider, or, as scientifically appropriate, provide co-authorship to the Data Provider based on any direct contribution s/he may make to the research;

Citation: Heinzeller, D., Olusegun, C., Kunstmann, H. (2016): Daily Outputs of Precipitation from the Low Resolution (60km) Regional Climate Model Simulations (WRF-ERAInterim) over West Africa, 1980 - 2010 (WASCAL Project). https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=3583db98-0304-4fc9-8f6d-b9a2f9e2a2e2

Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1980-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2010-01-31T00:00:00
Supplemental Information

WRFV3.5.1 model configuration for West Africa is the same as Klein et al. 2015.

The precipitation has been de-accumulated.

Variable naming convention:

pr=precipitation

File naming convention: waXXclmN_model_scenario_variable_YYYYstart_YYYYend.nc for resolution XX in km and for all streams.

Example 60km resolution: wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_pr_1980_1985.nc

The landmask file is time independent. Land binary mask (1 for land, 0 for water) from WRFv3.5.1 simulations forced with ERA-Interim reanalysis at 60 km resolution. File name is wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_sftlf_1989-01.nc
Distribution format
  • NETCDF ( version 4 )

Distributor

Processor
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) - Dr. Olusegun, Christiana
Ordering instructions
Contact processor by email to get the permission for accessing the data (resource)
OnLine resource
wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_sftlf_1989-01.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output landmask

OnLine resource
wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_pr_1980_1985.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1980-1985

OnLine resource
wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_pr_1986_1990.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1986-1990

OnLine resource
wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_pr_1991_1995.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1991-1995

OnLine resource
wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_pr_1996_2000.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1996-2000

OnLine resource
wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_pr_2001_2005.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2001-2005

OnLine resource
wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_pr_2006_2010.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2006-2010

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement
The model simulations starts in 1979 and run for 32 years at 3 hourly time step.Therefore, the daily sum of precipitation was extracted for the purpose of distribution. The first year of all simulations was discarded as model spin-up while the last 30 to 31 years were made available for further analysis.
File identifier
3583db98-0304-4fc9-8f6d-b9a2f9e2a2e2 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2017-11-27T15:09:28
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Processor
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Dr. Olusegun, Christiana Funmilola ( Post Doctoral )
Germany
 
 

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Mean daily precipitation for the year 1980 from WRF-ERA-Interim simulations at 60 km resolution. Units= mm/day

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Keywords

WRF-ERAInterim precipitation
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
atmospheric precipitation

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